Victor’s March
Among decapitated houses
resembling toothless sculls
we marched in their towns
tumbled buildings devastated
by smart bombs outsmarting
thoughtful animals
and we sang marching paeans
band played freedom songs
for the sarcastically smiling youths
who had implanted deep in their souls
the plan for revenge, youths
who in groups of three or four
planned their act of defiance
youths who had dreams
of killing us by the thousands
shoeless youths with grand dreams
that one day they’d become jihadists
Manolis Aligizakis 